Numerous types of hydrophilic polymer nanoparticles (NPs) have recently become research hotspots because their ability to dissolve in water and can be adapted with respect physical, chemical, biological properties meet the requirements different applications. Synthetic polymeric NPs had successfully gained much attention unique physicochemical properties, such as low toxicity, biodegradability,...

The recent interest in the application of organic semiconductor colloids to photocatalytic hydrogen evolution has sparked need for an assessment current state this research field. Here, we showcase how lessons learned from photovoltaics (OPV) can be applied new applications generation solar fuels, such as evolution. Photovoltaics generated nanoparticles (NPs) started with a power conversion eff...

Vinyl aromatic monomers derived from dihydroeugenol (EBM) and guaiacol (GBM) were copolymerized, via a miniemulsion process, with aliphatic high oleic soybean oil (HOSBM), yielding emulsion polymers higher levels of biobased content. This fully renewable monomer feed generated broad range novel latexes, the number-average molecular weight varying 25,000–650,000 g/mol. Increasing content heighte...

Activators regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET) atom radical polymerization (ATRP)-based aqueous miniemulsion where the takes place in stabilized monomer droplets is described. In this work, we compared styrene, n-butyl methacrylate (nBMA) and tert-butyl (tBMA) investigated influence of their hydrophobicity on dispersity, molecular weight particle stability based partition coefficients (log...